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7 votes
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Apple globally suspends program in which humans review users' Siri queries
11 votes -
Preserving laptop stickers on MacBooks
10 votes -
Are Spotify’s shareholders failing to see signs of the early stages of subscriber saturation?
15 votes -
Must-have browser extensions?
What are some of your must have browser extensions? I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better....
What are some of your must have browser extensions?
I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better. Here are the ones I currently use:
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The data transfer project
7 votes -
Everything cops say about Amazon's Ring is scripted or approved by Ring
18 votes -
The nanosheet transistor is the next (and maybe last) step in Moore’s Law
11 votes -
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has banned Google from listening to Google Home recordings in the EU for three months
9 votes -
Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
5 votes -
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud
8 votes -
How Not to Regulate Social Media: Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
4 votes -
Researchers at Uppsala University have successfully created the world's first paper battery
6 votes -
When having friends is more alluring than being right
14 votes -
Creating Passionate Users: The Myth of "Keeping up"
8 votes -
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords: Tips for working with a co-bot
6 votes -
Security researchers at Google Project Zero discovered and responsibly disclosed the recently patched iMessage based Apple iOS vulnerability
7 votes -
There are still people making rage comics in 2019, despite everything
21 votes -
YouTube trolls advertise fake homeless shelter, tricking 'desperate' California residents and harassing a social media personality
7 votes -
Datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google's growing interest in Finland
3 votes -
Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
13 votes -
Chinese vlogger who used filter to look younger caught in live-stream glitch
14 votes -
Budget smartphones - apparently there are good options. Opinions and recommendations?
I just picked up a Nokia 3.1 for $120 in a bit of an emergency and I really like it. It's very light, Android One, very nice styling and again it's $120! I was shocked by this experience at this...
I just picked up a Nokia 3.1 for $120 in a bit of an emergency and I really like it. It's very light, Android One, very nice styling and again it's $120!
I was shocked by this experience at this price point. This thing is excellent for my use case, as a pre-paid EU phone as my lovely iPhone 6s Plus has only one Sim slot. Are there any other great budget phones out there?
27 votes -
TOSLINK: That one consumer fiber optic standard
10 votes -
YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists?
23 votes -
What’s your favorite status-checking website to check for “Is Site down?”
Any particular reason for the preference?
6 votes -
The internet's old guard
20 votes -
What are your thoughts on the Blloc phone?
10 votes -
What CIOs need to know about 5G: It isn’t time to get started with 5G implementations. But it IS time to plan
4 votes -
GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions
6 votes -
How I made my own Android phone - in China
8 votes -
Spotify Untold – Inside Spotify's ill-fated flirtation with TV and hardware
8 votes -
Advice for starting a Wiki project
I am considering starting a wiki project for an academic niche. I've already started prototyping using Gitit, I've written a bit easy pages to get a feel for the software and am planning to start...
I am considering starting a wiki project for an academic niche. I've already started prototyping using Gitit, I've written a bit easy pages to get a feel for the software and am planning to start working on the most important page that summarises the topic itself, which I believe will help guide me to which pages to create first.
Now, here I'm asking for general advice to a newcomer n00bie wiki admin like me: what to expect, what software, etc. Any advice welcome, but I'll list a few questions below:
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What wiki software? I am liking Gitit, it is nice and easy to set up, and comes with its own server which I run with a systemctl user unit in the background. I tried Oddmuse but couldn't get it to work with a simple server; Ikiwiki setup is too clumsy for my liking (it friggin put stuff on my
$HOME
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How to defend against spam? My plan is to keep it invite-only for as long as I can. IDK how to do that with Gitit yet.
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How to serve it securely and for cheap, once I decide to publish? It probably won't ever grow beyond a few dozens of megabytes in file size.
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How do you go about promoting a wiki?
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What peripheral services (issue tracker, mailing list, IRC/Discord/etc channels) go well with a wiki?
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What tools are available to ensure content quality (no plagiarism, enforce conventions, monitor changes, ...)?
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The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
15 votes -
There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
12 votes -
Digital authoritarianism and the threat to global democracy
5 votes -
The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking
5 votes -
The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”
12 votes -
A blind man couldn't order pizza from Domino's. The company wants the US Supreme Court to say websites don't have to be accessible.
32 votes -
Project Glasswing: Adobe's new transparent display
7 votes -
What do y'all think about the new Twitter design?
It's obviously unfamiliar, but I have to say that I don't think it's that much worse than the one we had before. It does obviously follow the trend of making everything look so much more mobile-y,...
It's obviously unfamiliar, but I have to say that I don't think it's that much worse than the one we had before. It does obviously follow the trend of making everything look so much more mobile-y, but unlike Reddit they haven't really messed with the core display of content - in fact, I'd say the tweets themselves have gotten a bit larger. I've heard that the timeline gets reset to algorithmic sorting every 24h, which is an absolute no-go for me, but I haven't experienced that aspect myself.
Related: I've recently started using Tweetdeck and honestly have no idea why I should ever switch back to the main Twitter feed, redesign or not. Columns, lists, the customisation - it's pretty much everything I've ever wanted. Any tips or opinions on that?
14 votes -
Introducing Fedora CoreOS
9 votes -
What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
16 votes -
In an apparent first, genetic genealogy aids a wrongful conviction case
9 votes -
Apple buys Intel’s smartphone modem business
10 votes -
The Mutable Web
5 votes -
Samsung says it has fixed the Galaxy Fold and will release it in September
13 votes -
In your opinion, what sort of effects has the rise of social media had upon society?
It's no secret that social media is used by a large amount of people. The Pew Research Center has a social media fact sheet if you'd like to see the numbers. They claim that 72% of the American...
It's no secret that social media is used by a large amount of people. The Pew Research Center has a social media fact sheet if you'd like to see the numbers.
- They claim that 72% of the American population uses some form of social media.
- In 2018 twitter reported 326 million active monthly users.
- Facebook posted record number profits last year.
- Reddit had 330 million users in 2018
- One of the most amazing parts of social media's rise is how quickly that it happened. As stated in the Pew Research article:
when Pew Research Center began tracking social media adoption in 2005, just 5% of American adults used at least one of these platforms. By 2011 that share had risen to half of all Americans
With no signs of slowing down, social media is certainly going to be part of our lives for the foreseeable future. What sort of impact do you think it has had upon our society? Has it connected the people of the world, or disconnected them? Do the positive aspects outweigh the negative? If you believe social media's impact has been negative, do you think it can be fixed? How do you see social media evolving?
29 votes -
Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says
15 votes -
How do you keep track of all the projects you're interested in?
If you're like me, you have tons of various projects/companies/organizations that you like to keep up with. I have a few different methods I use to keep track of everything, but they all seem...
If you're like me, you have tons of various projects/companies/organizations that you like to keep up with. I have a few different methods I use to keep track of everything, but they all seem fragmented. Here are the methods I use:
- An RSS reader with the blogs of projects I follow
- Following the project on social media
- Mastodon
The RSS feeds work, but I almost always miss the social media posts. Is there a better way to do this? What do you Tildians do?
10 votes